Senate Bill No. 153

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Health Information Network.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-1. Health Care Authority.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 26, 2013, authorized under the authority of section seven, article twenty-nine-g, chapter sixteen of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 4, 2013, relating to the Health Care Authority (West Virginia Health Information Network, 65 CSR 28), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Health Information Network.

    This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.